Seanan McGuire (seanan_mcguire) wrote,
Seanan McGuire
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Tax day cat pictures!

For those of us in the continental United States, today is Tax Day: the day when it becomes more physically unsafe to be in the immediate vicinity of a post office than it is to be in the middle of the mall on Christmas Eve. Because I am a merciful human being who understands that angry mobs, like other natural disasters, sometimes just happen, I have elected to celebrate Tax Day in the most sensible way possible.

To whit: cat pictures. Today we're focusing on Alice, because you aren't as tired of looking at her yet.

It took Alice—short for Alice Price-Healy Little Liddel Abernathy McGuire, because I like names that I can really commit to shouting—approximately five minutes to decide that I was her people and my bedroom was her place to be. It's good to have cats that can understand the situation so clearly, right out the gate.



As my friend Josh said, "Why is it no surprise that your bedspread is orange?" As I said, the bedspread is actually orange, green, brown, and "you need to wash the bedspread now" eggshell-cream. It does a remarkably good job of not showing cat hair.



Behold the enormous golden and green eyes of endearingness! Alice can melt you with a guilesome stare, and I don't just mean because she has access to napalm.



Like all sensible cats, Alice likes a good cat tree. Like all sensible cats belonging to me, she doesn't object to the color orange.



What's this? Why, could it possibly be...a dangling fish?!



Alice whips out the BIG DAMN GUNS of being impossibly adorable.



That is one tricky fish, friends and neighbors.



Apparently, playing peek-a-boo with the fish is just as good as killing it. Who knew?



All that playtime was very, very tiring. Also, my rug demonstrates the concept behind failing to blend into your surroundings. Here I am, supplying a nice blendable pattern, and here she is, not blending. CAMO FAIL.



Flopped kitty...is flopped.



A kitten at rest doesn't object as much when you take her picture.



Blue cat and pumpkin blanket. Oh, she is so mine.



I leave you with LASER-EYE KITTEN, adrift in a sea of glorious orange and Halloween linen. Hopefully, she can blast your Tax Day blues away.

Next time, Lilly and Alice together!
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katyhh

April 15 2009, 12:37:57 UTC 8 years ago

Wow, she's pretty big already!

aryana_filker

April 15 2009, 12:40:59 UTC 8 years ago

She's Maine Coon. She will get BIGGER. In an article about Maine Coons I found values between 10 to 14 kilos for grown tomcats and a little bit less for females.

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kyrielle

April 15 2009, 12:38:33 UTC 8 years ago

Awwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww!

seanan_mcguire

April 15 2009, 14:09:11 UTC 8 years ago

Behold! For now she wears the ADORABLE pants!

aryana_filker

April 15 2009, 12:39:40 UTC 8 years ago

She's so adorable! This fluffy fur! Maine Coons just ROCK.
Sadly, Tiger got not so much of his Maine Coon Daddy's genes when it comes to fur.

seanan_mcguire

April 15 2009, 14:09:31 UTC 8 years ago

I appreciate that they have twice the fur and half the shedding of a Siamese.

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ceosanna

April 15 2009, 12:55:14 UTC 8 years ago

Between your pictures and the stories you've shared, I'm suddenly feeling the need for a kitten.

seanan_mcguire

April 15 2009, 14:09:43 UTC 8 years ago

Kittens are awesome. It's true.

madfilkentist

April 15 2009, 13:08:59 UTC 8 years ago

Cats, like tax collectors, won't take no for an answer. But your cats are vastly cuter.

seanan_mcguire

April 15 2009, 14:10:00 UTC 8 years ago

If they let kittens collect taxes, we'd have way fewer audits.

starletfallen

April 15 2009, 13:25:16 UTC 8 years ago

*SQUEE* SO CUTE. SO VERY VERY CUTE. OH MY GOD THE CUTE.

seanan_mcguire

April 15 2009, 14:10:12 UTC 8 years ago

It burns, it's true.

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filkerdave

April 15 2009, 13:27:22 UTC 8 years ago

:D

seanan_mcguire

April 15 2009, 14:10:18 UTC 8 years ago

<3

kathleenfoucart

April 15 2009, 13:32:01 UTC 8 years ago

Ooh! Kitty! Cute kitty! *pets*

seanan_mcguire

April 15 2009, 14:10:37 UTC 8 years ago

My cats love to be petted. You will be well-received around these parts.

bardling

April 15 2009, 13:38:37 UTC 8 years ago

*kitten-lust*

seanan_mcguire

April 15 2009, 14:10:46 UTC 8 years ago

*approves*

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all_ephemera

April 15 2009, 13:39:11 UTC 8 years ago

I found you via metaquotes, and I hope you don't mind that I've friended you? Your Maine Coon tales (heh, see what I did there..) are great and I enjoy your writing style. :)

Anyway, that was my de-lurk, and I shall go back to lurking now since I... don't actually know you. :)

seanan_mcguire

April 15 2009, 14:11:33 UTC 8 years ago

Not at all! :) This is an open-friending zone, and you're very welcome. Feel free to stick around and observe Alice's exponential expansion into adulthood.

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bkwrrm_tx

April 15 2009, 14:00:08 UTC 8 years ago

Kitty cute has made me dead. :-)

I've wanted a Maine Coon for years now. I think I'll forward pictures of yours to my husband, in an effort to wear him down.

seanan_mcguire

April 15 2009, 14:11:49 UTC 8 years ago

They're definitely awesome cats. I'm besotted.

snowcoma

April 15 2009, 14:47:00 UTC 8 years ago Edited:  April 15 2009, 14:47:57 UTC

Is that one of the Halloween throws from Target? I have the one with multi-colored skeletons. It is wickedly comfy.

And now my tax day is doubly better, because I don't have to file taxes (in your face, government! I'm a BABYSITTER!), and there's a kitty to look at.

*hugs to you and pettings to Lilly and Alice*

seanan_mcguire

April 16 2009, 01:10:15 UTC 8 years ago

It is! I love them soooooooooooo much, and they're so cozy.

solarbird

April 15 2009, 15:09:34 UTC 8 years ago

WHERE DID YOU GET THAT ORANGE CAT TREE

(I love it. I love it soooooo.)

Here, I think!

snowcoma

April 15 2009, 15:36:15 UTC 8 years ago

http://www.armarkat.com/premium-cat-tree/premium-cat-tree-x5802/prod_37.html

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nyxalinth

April 15 2009, 16:00:24 UTC 8 years ago

*dies of cute*

*comes back as a cute-smitten zombie*

seanan_mcguire

April 16 2009, 01:10:48 UTC 8 years ago

BEST KITTEN EVER!

allisona

April 15 2009, 16:06:54 UTC 8 years ago

Ah, sweet kitty! So fluffy and the eyes!

seanan_mcguire

April 16 2009, 01:11:01 UTC 8 years ago

She just keeps getting cuter. It's awesome.

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seanan_mcguire

April 16 2009, 01:11:24 UTC 8 years ago

She is a very smurgle-able cat, it's true.

scholarinexile

April 15 2009, 17:18:23 UTC 8 years ago

As I was looking at your pictures of Alice, my two kittens (Eris Tasselhoff Davis and Mina Josephine Davis) saw her, and immediately began pawing at her image on the monitor. I am uncertain if this indicates a desire for friendship, Kitten Death Match, or both.

seanan_mcguire

April 16 2009, 01:11:41 UTC 8 years ago

Always vote Kitten Death Match. It's more fun that way.

oneminutemonkey

April 15 2009, 17:29:16 UTC 8 years ago

Gabe wants a new friend.
I'm stealin' her.
Hah! Shoe's on the other paw now, isn't it?

seanan_mcguire

April 16 2009, 01:12:06 UTC 8 years ago

My house retains a lower cat density. Ergo Gabe is getting sucked over HERE.

jacylrin

April 15 2009, 18:10:40 UTC 8 years ago

She is precious! And goes really well with the pumpkineffer orange cat tree :-D

seanan_mcguire

April 16 2009, 01:12:22 UTC 8 years ago

My blue cats go well with my orange room. :)

nicachick007

April 15 2009, 19:09:44 UTC 8 years ago

She is so freaking gorgeous and I will steal her from you in the night.

And she didn't blast my Tax Day blues away, but only because I didn't have any. I'm getting $503 back on my taxes this year!

seanan_mcguire

April 16 2009, 01:12:34 UTC 8 years ago

Betsy makes awesome cats.

azurelunatic

April 15 2009, 19:31:00 UTC 8 years ago

KITTY!

seanan_mcguire

April 16 2009, 01:12:44 UTC 8 years ago

Correct!

baka_kit

April 15 2009, 20:16:19 UTC 8 years ago

Awwwww, kitten!

seanan_mcguire

April 16 2009, 01:12:57 UTC 8 years ago

She is so puffy it's practically a super-power.

miintikwa

April 15 2009, 20:59:14 UTC 8 years ago

FLOOOOOOOOOOOOOOF!

*is slain by the floof of doom* D'awwww!

seanan_mcguire

April 16 2009, 01:13:06 UTC 8 years ago

Hee.

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seanan_mcguire

April 16 2009, 01:13:37 UTC 8 years ago

She's going to be genuinely massive. I'm looking forward to that day with great eagerness, as it should solve the household power imbalance.

thepurpleempire

April 16 2009, 00:33:26 UTC 8 years ago

Oh! She's gorgeous! Those fluffy ear tufts... *dies of cute*

seanan_mcguire

April 16 2009, 01:13:54 UTC 8 years ago

Behold the adorable. It makes this day...easier.
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